"It was . From the previously-cited article, "Understanding Polygamy": "The polygamous Kingston family professes that their genealogy line traces back to Jesus Christ, and so they possess holy blood. 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. . Despite its on-going public relations effort to convince Americans that Mormons don't really support polygamy (and despite the belief of many devout Mormons that polygamy came from God as revealed church doctrine which will eventually be reinstated when Jesus returns to the Earth), a quarter of Americans surveyed also have expressed the opinion that most Mormons embrace the idea of plural marriage: "A . . One of the guilty pleas states they cycled fraud proceeds through a number of international partners and then back to Washakie's bank accounts, falsely claiming them as loans or profits. "'My guess is this man had used some of these inbreeding practices in his herd so he was probably in the camp that believed superior genetics could be propagated in a particular line,' Green says. . "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. . . . "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. "Some fumarase deficiency children, he says, develop a small degree of motor skills over time: 'They don't remain infantile their entire life. We specifically read that the law of consecration is designed to administer to the poor and the needy (D&C 42:35). The current leader of the Kingston Clan is Paul Elden Kingston, and it is reported that he has up to 27 wives (including three half-sisters) and some wives have as many as 18 children. But in a 2News . . "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. . . Like any fundamentalist Mormon sect, the Kingston Clan is very hierarchal. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . . There is no doubt about that at all. '", (John Dougherty, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children," in "Phoenix New Times," 29 December 2005, at: http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html) Eldens solo experience of receiving the priesthood keys and authority is truly singular and contrasts the pattern previously given by the Lord for important priesthood conferrals that require more than one witness. The groups, whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, are offshoots of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. on the history of the fundamentalist community. "'I had never seen a patient with it,' Tarby says. However, Grant claims she endured years of sexual abuse by a half-brother as a child. In the revelation, the Lord commands him to take virgins 'an hundredfold in this world' for the purpose to 'multiply and replenish the Earth' so 'they may bear the souls of men.' "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. . Unfortunately, there are also numerous reports of members who lived in squalor in order to advance the monetary gains of the Co-op. Assets are generally estimated to be in the range of $200 million, although one Colorado competitor gave an even more stratospheric guess, pegging the clan's wealth at $11 billion. "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. . . "I know these people personally.'. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' . The Kingston Group is not affiliated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based on the Utah-Arizona line that is run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, who. the tight-lipped adult answer, 'We dont know,' seemed woefully inadequate. . The accusers describe a patriarchal doctrine known as The Law of One Above Another, which they claim designates everyone a rank in the groups hierarchy. . The couple had lived together since the age of 7, when the mother of the woman's half-brother died. . "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. . . Indeed, regardless of facing crushing federal government opposition to polygamous inbreeding, true-blue Mormons remain convinced that you can't keep a good man of God down To them, polygamy will be coming back some day, with sizable numbers of the faithful flock confident that its eugenic genetics will return by order of Joseph's Jesus. Daughters of men in the Co-op would be married off at young ages. "With a well-thought-out plan," Hope After Polygamy explains, "she was successful; the judge granted her emancipation when she was 17 years old. Kingston was able to name only nine of his thirteen children by a second woman, Rachael Ann Kingston. "I never knew if I carried this deadly disease or if any preventative measures would halt its insidious march. . . "The leaders must also understand the ethical considerations of continuing behavior, he says, that is bringing children into the world who suffer tragic deformities. 5, p. 22. 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. Now, let's examine how "God-ordained" Mormon polygamy has wreaked unholy genetic havoc on its faithful followers: --Case Study on Polygamous Mormonism's Genetic Disease Striking Home: The Linda Walker Story. [11] Some members had begun the practice of plural marriage years before the establishment of the cooperative. Escaping Polygamy is an American documentary television series that premiered on December 30, 2014, on LMN.The show now airs on Lifetime, but can also be viewed on Tubi, and follows the work of three sisters who left the Kingston clan, a polygamous group based in Salt Lake City, Utah known as The Order, as they help family and/or friends break free of polygamy. hello Tarby. "The children afflicted with fumarase deficiency from these three marriages include the grandchildren of Dan Barlow and his brother, the late Louis Barlow, and Merill Jessop, a top aide to fugitive prophet Warren Jeffs. The two Kingston brothers and their business partner, Lev Dermen, are in jail awaiting trial, scheduled to start in July and last six weeks. So, from the beginnings of Mormon Church history, we have LDS Elohim's hand of blessing placed upon the insidious institution of multi-wifing and forever-birthing. . "For Colorado City and Hildale to avoid more fumarase, polygamist leaders must use their authority to make sure that those potentially carrying the fumarase gene are not allowed to marry, says geneticist Aleck. "Our ancestral destiny meant we might give birth to sons who would die at maturity or daughters who would carry the trait to the next generation of sons. The accusers also claim that the group arranged child marriages so that girls would become pregnant and beholden to their husbands and the religious sect. In the l950s, research doctors thought we were one of the few families in the world with this form of nephritis, known as Alports syndrome. "Nearly everyone in Colorado City, Arizona, and the adjacent town of Hildale, Utah, was a member of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that practices polygamy and had long encouraged multiple marriages between close relatives. . They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. . 3, p. 291, "I have noticed that a man who has but one wife, and is inclined to that doctrine, soon begins to wither and dry up, while a man who goes into plurality [of wives] looks fresh, young, and sprightly. . . They offer no support, no exit route and no programs for the people trapped inside polygamy endeavoring to escape these closed polygamous communities or compounds. He was kicking people out, too, who weren't obedient. . "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . "Medical experts say the incidence of the disorder will increase because the FLDS community is refusing to accept recommendations to reduce the likelihood of producing babies with fumarase deficiency. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. It is a common and intentional practice in the Order to require girls and women to submit sexually to their husbands even if the sexual submission is against their will because having children results in workers for the benefit of the Order, the lawsuit states. But it is unclear how such assets are exalting the poor or making the rich low. . . . It alleges sex trafficking, sexual battery and child abuse, and seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages. . This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. For a more detailed view the the Kingston's historysee Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2006). 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. Children are allowed to attend public school and many go on to college. Two weeks after is excommunication, Kingston had a dream wherein he believed he was visited by Jesus Christ and God the Father. refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. Sally Kingston, a wife of one of the brothers, and. Never miss a story. 'I really doubt that if we could tell them, you know, "This male has the condition and this female has the condition; you shouldn't mate," that wouldn't stop them,' he said. . . [17] That same year, Ardous Kingston Gustafson, a mother of four and founding Co-op member, was jailed on Christmas Eve when she could not produce membership lists that were to be used to target plural families for further arrest and harassment. Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? This denial is hollow considering the record. The organized Ku Klux Klan movement saw a boost in its membership in 2017. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. [10], According to his autobiography, Charles W. Kingston became disenchanted with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1926 because it abandoned plural marriage. 'A lady comes in and helps her. Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. . . "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. "Her half-brother is still married to another half-sister (whose parents also were half-sister and brother) and are still members of the Kingston's order. . Have you also noticed all the genetic and other debilitating defects, deformities and diseases that comes along with your poisoned patriarchal plurality-of-wives club? She suffered from. . Video unavailable This video. . "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. The Latter Day Church of Christ,[1] is considered a Mormon fundamentalist denomination by some in the Latter Day Saint movement. "Victims suffer a range of symptoms, including severe epileptic seizures, inability to walk or even sit upright, severe speech impediments, failure to grow at a normal rate, and tragic physical deformities. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. "By the late 1990s, Tarby and his team had discovered fumarase deficiency was occurring in the greatest concentration in the world among the fundamentalist Mormon polygamists of northern Arizona and southern Utah. The group also teaches its members that only those with so-called pure blood will survive the apocalypse, according to the lawsuit. "15 years ago, a strange-looking child suffering from severe physical maladies and acute retardation was brought into the office of [pedatric neurologist] Dr. Theodore Tarby. "John Ortell Kingston was the first Kingston to experiment with incest, marrying and bearing children with two half-sisters and two nieces, according to numerous ex-members of the clan. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. . . . He prepared urine samples and sent them to the University of Colorado Science Center's Dr. Steve Goodman, a professor of pediatrics who runs a laboratory that detects rare genetic diseases. Polygamy would have afforded the opportunity of producing from that consecrated fatherhood and motherhood the improved type of man the world needs to reveal the highest possibilities of the race, that the day of the super man might come, and with him come also the redemption and betterment of the race.'. Consanguinity causes aggregate clusters of deleterious genes to collect in families, which then express themselves as rare recessive disorders like nephritis, cystic fibrosis, biliary artesia, albinism, short stature and many others. Those unions fell within Utahs consanguinity restrictions and, if discovered, would be considered incestuous under the laws of the state. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . From the "Phoenix New Timms" article, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children": "Colorado City resident Isaac Wyler says FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs is trying to create the 'perfect race.'. Nearly all the Mormon founding families were relatives, so the first polygamists enjoyed relations to different degrees when the divine experiment began. [39], The organization continues to publicly denounce the practice of child marriage,[41][39] and maintains that marriages within the group are not coerced. . Several people also wonder if parts of 'Escaping Polygamy' is dramatized. Derman was found guilty of masterminding the scheme in March 2020. . One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? Jacob Kingston told prosecutors the company was capable of producing some amounts of biodiesel, but in no year did it ever produce more than 8.5 million gallons. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! . "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . [7] Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS became members of the church and most retain dual membership in both organizations to this day. . . We cannot afford to neglect the possibility our ancestors practiced a form of marriage that was unhealthy and debilitating to our children, to us, and to society. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. "The Kingstons are among a small number of family groups in the world who marry closer than first cousins on a regular basis. 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Upon Ortells death in 1987, leadership passed to his son Paul Elden Kingston. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. But it must needs be done in mine own way; and behold this is the way that I, the Lord, have decreed to provide for my saints, that the poor shall be exalted, in that the rich are made low (D&C 104:16). During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series "Escaping Polygamy," remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring. [39], In 2016, the State of Utah with federal law enforcement raided various properties in connection with the Kingston family or Davis County Cooperative Society with the intention of finding welfare fraud.